INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSES

Stockholm Resilience Centre offers interdisciplinary courses on first (Undergraduate), second (Master's) and third (PhD) levels of University education. Want to know more about our courses? Click here!

POLICY and Practice

Our engagement in science-policy-practice activities has increased steadily over the years and range from high-level UN dialogues to local resilience assessments. Want to know more about our policy work? Click here!

Governance and Management of Social-ecological Systems (15 ECTS)

This course explores alternative approaches for analyzing how people make choices, use rules, and learn to manage and govern social-ecological systems

The course will introduce multiple perspectives on management and governance that include approaches to decision-making under uncertainty, approaches to ecological management that enable learning, how institutional choices shape environmental management and how governance can be designed to adapt to social-ecological change.

Students will learn how to apply cost-benefit analysis, decision analysis under uncertainty, and game theory to the analysis of environmental issues. They will explore successful cases of environmental management, and how governance systems have been successfully transformed as well as how mismatches between governance and ecological dynamics can produce failure.

Strategies for effecting positive change in environmental management, and barriers impeding such change will be examined. Students will be introduced to theoretical concepts and methods for analysis, and will conduct group and individual research projects that utilize these concepts and methods.

The course consists of the following four modules (dates will be announced shortly): VII: Challenges of Environmental Decision Making (4 ECTS)VIII: Drama of Commons (3 ECTS)IX: Adaptive Management (4 ECTS)X: Adaptive Governance (4 ECTS)

Detailed course syllabus will be available no later than four weeks before first lecture.